Change Management Job Trends in the South East

Change Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Change Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 89 100
Rank change year-on-year -17 +11 -9
Permanent jobs citing Change Management 232 235 450
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.60% 3.06% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 3.38% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 115 99 198
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £50,967 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £88,716 £70,000 £77,150
England median annual salary £60,310 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.52% +9.09% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Change Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,499 6,944 13,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.51% 90.42% 84.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6,941 3,404 9,825
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,280 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Change Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Change Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Change Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Change Management
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Change Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Change Management

Change Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Change Management in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Change Management in the South East

Change Management
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Surrey +21 77 £57,500 -4.17% 13
Thames Valley -40 70 £42,000 -17.59% 37
Berkshire -26 49 £37,500 -5.06% 19
Hampshire -7 45 £58,000 +0.57% 14
Kent -17 35 £110,000 +83.33% 4
Buckinghamshire -28 18 £55,000 +7.91% 12
Oxfordshire -11 3 £47,500 +5.56% 8
East Sussex -17 2 £65,000 - 4
West Sussex -19 1 - - 4
Sussex - 1 - - 1
Change Management
England

Change Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 30 (12.93%) SharePoint
2 20 (8.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (4.74%) Confluence
4 2 (0.86%) CMS
4 2 (0.86%) SAS
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) IIS
5 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.86%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.86%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (0.86%) Q-Pulse
2 2 (0.86%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.43%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 51 (21.98%) Azure
2 39 (16.81%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (13.36%) SaaS
4 21 (9.05%) Power Platform
5 16 (6.90%) AWS
5 16 (6.90%) Entra ID
5 16 (6.90%) Mimecast
6 8 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.45%) Nutanix
6 8 (3.45%) PowerApps
7 4 (1.72%) ChatGPT
7 4 (1.72%) ClickUp
7 4 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (1.72%) Miro
7 4 (1.72%) OneDrive
7 4 (1.72%) Veeva
8 3 (1.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.29%) IaaS
8 3 (1.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.45%) Cisco Firepower
1 8 (3.45%) DHCP
1 8 (3.45%) DNS
1 8 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
2 7 (3.02%) Cisco IOS
2 7 (3.02%) Cisco ISE
2 7 (3.02%) Firewall
2 7 (3.02%) Junos
2 7 (3.02%) NX-OS
2 7 (3.02%) Wireless
3 3 (1.29%) Broadband
4 2 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.43%) BGP
5 1 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.43%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.43%) Intranet
5 1 (0.43%) OSPF
5 1 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.43%) VLAN
5 1 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.60%) Power BI
2 11 (4.74%) Metadata
3 4 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.29%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.43%) Airbyte
6 1 (0.43%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.43%) MySQL
6 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (15.52%) JIRA
2 20 (8.62%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.86%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.86%) Git
4 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.43%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (0.43%) Selenium
General
1 100 (43.10%) Finance
2 91 (39.22%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.76%) Aerospace
4 18 (7.76%) Influencing Skills
4 18 (7.76%) Legal
5 14 (6.03%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.88%) Marketing
7 9 (3.88%) Retail
8 6 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.16%) Law
9 5 (2.16%) Local Government
10 4 (1.72%) Banking
10 4 (1.72%) Digital Health
10 4 (1.72%) Games
10 4 (1.72%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.29%) German Language
11 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 53 (22.84%) Analyst
2 38 (16.38%) Support Analyst
3 31 (13.36%) Applications Support
3 31 (13.36%) Applications Support Analyst
4 29 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
5 26 (11.21%) Lead
6 25 (10.78%) Senior
7 23 (9.91%) Principal Engineer
8 21 (9.05%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 16 (6.90%) Service Analyst
10 15 (6.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 15 (6.47%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (6.47%) Support Engineer
11 14 (6.03%) 2nd Line Support
11 14 (6.03%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
11 14 (6.03%) 3rd Line Support
11 14 (6.03%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 14 (6.03%) Head of IT
12 12 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (5.17%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.88%) OLE
2 7 (3.02%) Middleware
2 7 (3.02%) REST
3 4 (1.72%) SAPUI5
4 3 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.29%) Kafka
5 2 (0.86%) CSS
5 2 (0.86%) EDI
5 2 (0.86%) HTML
5 2 (0.86%) JSON
6 1 (0.43%) Ajax
6 1 (0.43%) CodeIgniter
6 1 (0.43%) CSS3
6 1 (0.43%) DOM
6 1 (0.43%) HTML5
6 1 (0.43%) jQuery
6 1 (0.43%) Laravel
6 1 (0.43%) Playwright
6 1 (0.43%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.78%) Life Science
2 23 (9.91%) Management Information System
3 17 (7.33%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (5.60%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.31%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.45%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.02%) PKI
8 6 (2.59%) IoT
9 4 (1.72%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.29%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.29%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.29%) Pharmacovigilance
10 3 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.29%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.86%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.86%) NHS
12 1 (0.43%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.19%) Windows
2 9 (3.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 51 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (21.12%) ITSM
4 45 (19.40%) Technical Leadership
5 44 (18.97%) ITIL
6 43 (18.53%) Incident Management
7 39 (16.81%) Project Management
8 34 (14.66%) Agile
8 34 (14.66%) Service Management
9 32 (13.79%) Business Strategy
9 32 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (13.36%) Service Delivery
10 31 (13.36%) Workflow
11 26 (11.21%) Cybersecurity
11 26 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (10.78%) Project Delivery
13 24 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
13 24 (10.34%) Roadmaps
13 24 (10.34%) Validation
14 22 (9.48%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.90%) R
2 14 (6.03%) SQL
3 4 (1.72%) ABAP
3 4 (1.72%) Python
4 3 (1.29%) Go
5 2 (0.86%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.86%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.43%) Bash
6 1 (0.43%) Groovy
6 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (26.72%) Degree
2 27 (11.64%) BPSS Clearance
3 22 (9.48%) Chartered Engineer
4 20 (8.62%) Security Cleared
5 19 (8.19%) Master's Degree
6 12 (5.17%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.45%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.29%) HNC
9 3 (1.29%) HND
10 2 (0.86%) CCNP
10 2 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.43%) APMG
11 1 (0.43%) CISM
11 1 (0.43%) CRISC
11 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.43%) PMP
11 1 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.05%) SLA
2 18 (7.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (6.90%) Data Quality
4 10 (4.31%) PMO
5 8 (3.45%) QA
6 7 (3.02%) Accessibility
7 5 (2.16%) GRC
7 5 (2.16%) ITGC
8 3 (1.29%) Good Clinical Practice
8 3 (1.29%) GxP
9 2 (0.86%) GDPR
9 2 (0.86%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.43%) NCSC
10 1 (0.43%) NIST
10 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (15.52%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.88%) Hyper-V
4 8 (3.45%) Firmware
5 7 (3.02%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.45%) SCCM
3 7 (3.02%) vCenter Server
4 3 (1.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 50 (21.55%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.90%) CrowdStrike
3 11 (4.74%) SAP
4 10 (4.31%) Palo Alto
4 10 (4.31%) VMware
5 9 (3.88%) Cisco
5 9 (3.88%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.45%) Dell
6 8 (3.45%) Dell Compellent
6 8 (3.45%) HP
6 8 (3.45%) Nimble Storage
6 8 (3.45%) Qualys
7 7 (3.02%) Broadcom
7 7 (3.02%) Juniper
7 7 (3.02%) MuleSoft
7 7 (3.02%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.72%) Databricks
9 2 (0.86%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.86%) Sage